verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
portray a character (= show one in a play, book, film etc )
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The main characters are brilliantly portrayed.
portray sb as a victim (= to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation )
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She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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First, deficit cultures are portrayed as irrational, as based on ignorance.
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Fathers have so rarely done the nurturing that their attempts are either portrayed as heroic or summarily dismissed.
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The two companies were portrayed as representing totally contrasting management philosophies.
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The sponsoring group must insistently be portrayed as friendly, hopeful, welcoming, and benign.
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Newton is portrayed as influencing eighteenth-century perspective in an unspecified manner, although his effect on colour theory is seen as considerable.
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The black nationalists were portrayed as well-meaning, earnest ideologues lacking the resources to defeat the establishment.
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Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!
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The various non-human beings who hunt humans are not portrayed as violent or aggressive either.
often
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The life of Brian is often portrayed as a complex one.
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In the past, they were often portrayed as at grips with civilization in a sort of duel of love.
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Perhaps she really is the long-suffering, devoted wife she's often portrayed to be.
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Blaming the victim However, the moral status of the victim is often portrayed as ambivalent in murder trials.
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Yet she can not find an entirely satisfactory alternative, for the life of the spinster is often portrayed in stark terms.
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Investment is often portrayed as a cure-all for the economic ills of rich countries.
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Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus supporting the existence of global warming, the media often portray it as a controversial scientific debate.
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Integrate yourself Our hobby is often portrayed as a kind of shady sub-culture, outside the mainstream of society.
■ NOUN
actor
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The entire cast -- 23 actors portraying inmates portraying fictional characters based on real ones -- inhabit the stage simultaneously.
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Yet it is difficult to get past the turkey legs on the actor portraying Alexander.
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The actors include Mark Hamill portraying Col.
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A great actor portraying a great actor.
attempt
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By 1831 the attempt to portray antislavery in parliament as an exercise in abstract moralism was absent.
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Fathers have so rarely done the nurturing that their attempts are either portrayed as heroic or summarily dismissed.
character
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He first described this in Noctambules which showed how the characters portrayed were manipulated by the Hypnotist.
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Enough for them to relate to the characters being portrayed .
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You will not only be sure of the text, but, more than this, of the character you are portraying .
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What can you say about a show where the names of the three actresses sound more manufactured than the characters they portray ?
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Examples taken from both choreographers' works describe the particular feelings, moods and emotions of the characters their dancers are portraying .
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Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book.
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Situations and characters to be portrayed can be set out for the learner on a worksheet.
effort
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Harmony and collective company effort is portrayed as a reciprocal bargain.
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The effort to portray Stern as a prince is relentless.
image
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She has been highly successful and portrays a very positive image , which affects the number of female pupils we attract.
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The artist portrayed images of daily life in his native town of Ocotlan with vivid colors, surrealism and magical realism.
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Invariably old age is portrayed by the image of an old lady living in obvious poverty and social neglect.
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Some of the media were interested only in portraying a violent image of Blackbird Leys.
life
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Working models, videos, pictorial and three dimensional displays portray every aspect of life on the canals.
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The artist portrayed images of daily life in his native town of Ocotlan with vivid colors, surrealism and magical realism.
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Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!
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Lugar, 63, has tried to portray his life in politics as merely accidental.
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These accounts portray life behind bars as a cruel twist on the Hobbesian description of life: nasty, brutish and long.
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They not only portrayed middle-class life and its problems but attacked the corruption and depravity of the nobility.
man
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Thomas portrays Bobby as a man of paradoxes.
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Books portraying black men in a positive light are simply not part of the growth industry.
media
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Such negative stereotypes are often reinforced by pervasive media images which portray the young as capable and glamorous.
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Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus supporting the existence of global warming, the media often portray it as a controversial scientific debate.
woman
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Berkoff portrays a lonely middle-aged woman who has had more than her fair share of gropes in corners and one-night stands.
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In wild expressionist style, the work portrays a slain woman lying at the feet of a grinning king.
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Storni does not portray women in general as she does Margara.
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Its advertisement portrayed two black women , naked, in chains, and a white man standing over them with a whip.
■ VERB
seek
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If the Tories are seeking to portray Mr Brown as a spendthrift, they are almost certain to fail.
try
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We're trying to portray normal relationships.
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Lugar, 63, has tried to portray his life in politics as merely accidental.
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Labour will try this week to portray itself as the party of hope, with policies on education, training and health.
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That was the ghost figure I was trying to portray .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fink is not the only writer portrayed in the film.
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In the movie, Burg portrays a real-life Holocaust survivor.
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Their music portrays a lifestyle that no longer exists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All along, the Owens River had been portrayed as a matter of life or death to the city of Los Angeles.
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Instead, she portrayed herself as a philanthropist, eager to help old friends down on their luck.
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Leonard Baskin has been chosen to portray F.D.R.'s first inauguration and, in the final room, his funeral cortège.
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The recommendation was a surprise because census officials previously have portrayed adjustment as a solution to chronic undercounts.
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This again portrays Cassius as a hero, and Caesar as a feeble old man in comparison.
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This is the only example portraying a Roman Emperor which has survived intact from such an early age.
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Two portray large dramatic faces that do not look particularly human.
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We are all given T-shirts that portray Erap as a crocodile, gobbling money.